On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:38:42 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس  سماوي حامد  
<ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> OTOH, why not just use
>  bla bla \message{Here is a note to myself.} bla bla

Just curious: Is there anything that \message is missing for what u want?  
I tried both inline and multiline combos and they all work like a charm:

==========
\starttext
Here is some text. \message{Given an action, the recompense is always in  
proportion to the degree of participation in Consciousness involved.} Here  
is some text.

Here is some text. \message{Given an action, the recompense is always in
proportion to the degree of participation in Consciousness involved.} Here  
is some text.

Here is some text.
\message{Given an action, the recompense is always in proportion to the  
degree of participation in Consciousness involved.}
Here is some text.

Here is some text.
\message{Given an action, the recompense is always in proportion to the  
degree of
  participation in Consciousness involved.}
Here is some text.
\stoptext
==========

As a feature, I suppose all that's needed -- for the paranoid, maybe  
you're writing a letter to your boss with hidden curses ;-) -- is the  
option to suppress the showing of the text on the console/log. Although  
it's in the source anyway ... For ¿ and ¡ probably some simple catcode  
trickery will \let you define them as you like.

So I'm curious: How can we define

¿ = \message{
¡ = } % this one is of course trivial, but for completeness...

Since you brought this up, I've actually started using \message more (and  
no, not for cursing my boss!)

Best wishes
Idris
-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523